YOUR BELONGING IN GOD IS JESUS
08/03/24 08:28
The work of Satan the Wrecker is undone in the person and actions of Jesus Christ. Separationism in actuality and as a mindset is annulled in the person of Jesus who in Himself joins us to God because He is one of us and He is God. We are made one with God in the person of Jesus Christ.
WOVEN INTO GOD
Paul asserts that Christ is in us while John affirms that we are woven into Christ and thus into God in Jesus the Person.
JESUS AND FATHER ARE ONE
The homoousion refers to the divine consubstantiality of the Son with the Father. The meaning of this is explicit in ‘The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word’ Hebrews 1.3 and in ‘If you have seen me, you have seen the Father’.
DILUTED GOSPELS AND DEVIOUS ABERRATIONS
If our union with God is founded on a difference between Jesus and The Father or if this undoing of Adam depends on our earning of acceptance with God by law-keeping and personal goodness and not on this Christ or God who is all sufficient in forgiveness, reconciliation and forming us into His own image there is a consequence. Our life-journey in God is at worst a misery and at best pedestrian. Because Christ has come in our flesh, the life of God has come into our being and we are able to participate in the ultra-life that is God in this life. We call this life in the Spirit which is the expression of Christ’s spirit and life in Joe and Elizabeth.
SUB-CHRISTIAN LIVING
We can if we are not astute live in the Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil mistaking it for the real thing. It can draw acclaim from others and occasionally glitter, but it is fool’s gold were the Kingdom of Jesus is concerned furnishing droplets of water instead of rivers of spirit and life.
Thomas Torrance observes, “Let it be sufficient to note that the significance of the homoousion is lodged in the relation of Christ in the reality and integrity of his humanity to his reality an integrity as the eternal Son of the Father.
It is the wholeness of Christ's humanity that we have to keep in mind here - that in the completely human, spatio-temporal being of Jesus who is our brother, flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
It is precisely as the incarnate Son shares with the Father his eternal being and nature, that he also shares with us our contingent an mortal being and nature. The utterly astonishing thing proclaimed in the Gospel is that God himself came among us precisely as man.
It is as such that God meets us, revealing himself to us, and acts on our behalf, as he who fully shares with us in the wholeness of our human being, nature, and condition in body, mind, and soul. This was one of the primary truths of the Gospel evaded by the Arians, in their determination to keep God at an infinite distance from human beings.” (1) Present day Christians can do the same thing when they live a law contained christ instead of the Christ of God who is God and their Brother.
(1) Thomas Torrance. Trinitarian Faith The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Faith. P 136.
WOVEN INTO GOD
Paul asserts that Christ is in us while John affirms that we are woven into Christ and thus into God in Jesus the Person.
JESUS AND FATHER ARE ONE
The homoousion refers to the divine consubstantiality of the Son with the Father. The meaning of this is explicit in ‘The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word’ Hebrews 1.3 and in ‘If you have seen me, you have seen the Father’.
DILUTED GOSPELS AND DEVIOUS ABERRATIONS
If our union with God is founded on a difference between Jesus and The Father or if this undoing of Adam depends on our earning of acceptance with God by law-keeping and personal goodness and not on this Christ or God who is all sufficient in forgiveness, reconciliation and forming us into His own image there is a consequence. Our life-journey in God is at worst a misery and at best pedestrian. Because Christ has come in our flesh, the life of God has come into our being and we are able to participate in the ultra-life that is God in this life. We call this life in the Spirit which is the expression of Christ’s spirit and life in Joe and Elizabeth.
SUB-CHRISTIAN LIVING
We can if we are not astute live in the Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil mistaking it for the real thing. It can draw acclaim from others and occasionally glitter, but it is fool’s gold were the Kingdom of Jesus is concerned furnishing droplets of water instead of rivers of spirit and life.
Thomas Torrance observes, “Let it be sufficient to note that the significance of the homoousion is lodged in the relation of Christ in the reality and integrity of his humanity to his reality an integrity as the eternal Son of the Father.
It is the wholeness of Christ's humanity that we have to keep in mind here - that in the completely human, spatio-temporal being of Jesus who is our brother, flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
It is precisely as the incarnate Son shares with the Father his eternal being and nature, that he also shares with us our contingent an mortal being and nature. The utterly astonishing thing proclaimed in the Gospel is that God himself came among us precisely as man.
It is as such that God meets us, revealing himself to us, and acts on our behalf, as he who fully shares with us in the wholeness of our human being, nature, and condition in body, mind, and soul. This was one of the primary truths of the Gospel evaded by the Arians, in their determination to keep God at an infinite distance from human beings.” (1) Present day Christians can do the same thing when they live a law contained christ instead of the Christ of God who is God and their Brother.
(1) Thomas Torrance. Trinitarian Faith The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Faith. P 136.
